In the summer of 1995, one night, on the border of Western Xinjiang Province, Tarim Pass.

A green train rushed past the railway, and the roaring sound of the engine broke into the deep mountain forest first, and also disappeared into the endless darkness. Scattered in the sky was the moonlight at midnight, cold and bleak, falling on the endless dark forests of Tarim Mountain, and it looked particularly gloomy and white. There was no wailing of wild beasts, no startling of birds, and the whole world was a little too quiet, except for the little light at the end of the train, which symbolized the existence of life, but as the train drove deeper and deeper, under the shade of the trees, the light became more and more difficult to see.

At the end of the train, six or seven people were lying on sleepers, looking dusty and exhausted. There were men and women, old and young, in this group, and the same two words were printed on the same uniform: Western Expedition. This is led by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Ancient Cultural Relics Scientific Expedition, experts from all walks of life and people jointly set up the archaeological team of the Western Expedition.

The ancient kingdom of Poz, a civilization active in the Western Regions thousands of years ago, is a mysterious country that only exists in wild history and legends. The purpose of the archaeological team's trip was to go deep into the desert of Western Xinjiang to find this lost ruin.

After six months of exploration and excavation, the group was finally completed, and the train would take them back to their original starting point, Beijing.

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"You ask me how much I love you, how much do I love you? My love is true, my love is true, and the moon represents my heart. You ask me how much I love you, how much do I love you? My love is unwavering, my love is unchanging, and the moon represents my heart. A gentle kiss has touched my heart, a deep love, and I miss it to this day. You ask me how much I love you, how much do I love you? You think about it, you go and see it, the moon represents my heart......"

A "melodious and harmonious natural sound" suddenly sounded from a certain bed, calling the sleeping people back from their sleep, and the originally peaceful carriage was suddenly filled with gossip and complaints.

"I'll go, beard, did you take the wrong medicine? I don't sleep in the middle of the night, what kind of song do I sing! A man with a Mediterranean haircut struggled to sit up, rubbing his eyes and looking dissatisfied.

On his top bunk was a middle-aged man with the exact opposite of him, with a hairy and bearded face. The bearded man stared at a photograph in his hand and sang unselfishly, until he heard the murmur of the Mediterranean, and he realized that he had forgotten to turn down the volume of his voice.

However, the bearded man quickly put away his embarrassed face and asked Mediterranean, "What's the matter?" It's finally going home soon, aren't you happy at all? Excited, you know? You can still sleep as a heartless person. ”

Mediterranean was even more unhappy when he heard this, and said, "You've been excited for a few days, so it's time to rest, right?" I think you are too yang, and you have so much hair, do you really think that you are a master of the world with fairy wind and bones? ”

"That's better than your hair falling out before you're forty, right?" The bearded man said, still looking at the photo in his hand, a middle-aged man with a rough face, holding a virtuous woman with a smile on his face and a dignified demeanor, and holding a baby who was still asleep in swaddling clothes with his eyes closed.

"If you want me to say, you just don't have a home, and when you have a wife and children, you will know how happy I am!"

"Don't open any pot and mention which pot!" Mediterranean touched his flat head, wanted to cry without tears, and said, "I want to find a partner, you can introduce me?" ”

"Puff ......" the bearded man couldn't help but smile, "Okay, okay, I'll introduce you when I go back." ”

The rest of the sleepers also chuckled when they heard this. The archaeological team has been formed for such a long time, and the mouth cannon between the bearded man and the Mediterranean Sea has long become their daily must-have entertainment, and everyone has long been accustomed to the so-called "quarrel" between them. As the voices of the two people became quieter and quieter, everyone gradually fell silent again.

"Okay, let's talk about that." Mediterranean rubbed his eyes, put on his glasses, and said softly, "Well, anyway, I'm being disturbed by you right now, so I'll just chat with you." Your kid is almost seven months old, isn't he? ”

"Six months and nine days." The bearded man said, and suddenly his eyes were sour, "I don't know how this kid is, can he squeak......

Mediterranean heard the faint cry in the beard's tone, sighed softly with deep feelings, softened his tone, and comforted the bearded man in turn: "Fortunately, we are finally coming back, don't be too anxious, it's just a matter of one or two days." ”

The bearded man nodded silently, still looking at the photo, and stopped talking. The Mediterranean had to be silent for a long time.

I don't know how long it took, the bearded man rubbed his face, sobered up from his intoxication, turned his head, and looked at the man sitting on the Mediterranean bunk.

"Brother Di...... It's been so long, I haven't asked you, do you have a wife and children? ”

The man closed his eyes, heard the voice, looked up at the beard, and did not know whether he had fallen asleep or had been closing his eyes to recuperate.

This person's name is Cheng Di, with a handsome face, good looks, and an age of no more than thirty, but he has thick facial features, a strong figure, and a mature temperament but he is not old-fashioned. The archaeological team had a large number of people, but after a series of natural and man-made disasters, only nine people on the train were left alive. Mediterranean, Bearded, Professor Yang, and Professor Zhang are all experts sent by the General Administration of Scientific Exploration, among which Professor Zhang and Yang are both over the age of sixteen, and are directly responsible for the scientific expedition of the ancient country of Pozi, and are the core of this archaeological team. Lao Li and Master Liu are the drivers, and Satisfaction and Xiaolin, who sleep in another carriage, are interns with the team, young people in their early twenties, who help several experts. In addition to these staff, the archaeological team also invited a group of capable people from the private sector to assist in the scientific expedition, and Cheng Di was the only one left in this group.

This Cheng Di is a little different from others, taciturn, his face is like water, no one has ever seen him look like he has an expression, he doesn't lie down when he rests, he always just sits upright, most of the time he is like air, and he has no sense of existence. But the archaeological team encountered all kinds of dangers along the way, quicksand, storms, ancient institutions, every time it came to a critical moment, he was always able to improvise and help people get out of danger, it can be said that without him, it is unknown whether these nine people can return safely, so although he never has too much communication with other people, everyone still trusts and respects him very much.

Cheng Di looked at the bearded man, still with a wooden face, and was silent for five or six seconds before replying, "No." ”

The bearded man sighed when he heard this, and said, "It's actually good to have nothing to worry about like you." ”

Cheng Di didn't respond, lowered his head, but secretly frowned from an angle that no one could see. The bearded man and the Mediterranean don't talk anymore, and everyone has their own thoughts. Cheng Di suddenly stood up suddenly, turned around and walked towards another carriage.

This time the bearded man and the Mediterranean were stunned, Cheng Di has always been calm and calm, and he has never seen such a rapid movement.

"Brother Di, why are you going? It's too late, and it's not going to stop, huh? Mediterranean asked.

Cheng Di stopped and turned his back to everyone.

"That thing is so weird, I'm not at ease, I'll check it again just to be on the safe side."

As he spoke, Cheng Di pushed open the door of the other carriage and left, leaving only the bearded man and the Mediterranean with a puzzled expression.

At this time, Lao Li quietly walked over, sat on Cheng Di's sleeper, and squinted at the Mediterranean.

"Why are you not sleeping?" Mediterranean asked.

Lao Li smiled and said, "I said Brother Shun...... The thing that Brother Di said just now...... Is it the one you got that can't be opened? ”

"That's right." Mediterranean nodded, "But that's not planing, that's called excavation." ”

"Ah, yes...... Dig, dig, hey. "Although the driver Lao Li and Master Liu, who is now driving the train, are also members of the team, they are only responsible for driving, and they only know a little about the situation of the scientific examination.

"Then I say...... What Brother Di said just now is strange, isn't it just a coffin, what can be strange? ”

Mediterranean shook his head and said, "I don't know, there's nothing wrong with me looking at it, it's normal for things in the ancient Western Regions to be messy." Professor Zhang and Professor Yang didn't say anything, but Brother Di just said that there was a problem, and we don't know why. ”

In another carriage, Cheng Di walked gently, he never made a sound when he walked, but his steps were very solid.

"Hmm~ah~ No...... Don't ......"

There seemed to be a slight human gasp in the carriage.

Cheng Di stopped, he knew that his movements were too light, and it was impossible for ordinary people to realize his approach.

"Ahem......" Cheng Di coughed deliberately.

The slight voice suddenly stopped, and after a second or two, a satisfied voice came from the sleeper in the distance: "Who...... Who is it? ”

"Cheng Di."

"Ah...... Brother Di, wait a minute, ha......"

Then there was a hurried voice, and he hurriedly put on his clothes and walked out with a flushed face.

"Brother Di...... What's wrong? Satisfied, he stumbled.

"I'm going to check it out over there." Cheng Di said calmly.

"Oh...... Good ......" Satisfied hurriedly gave up a position, lowered his head, and looked at Cheng Di with embarrassed eyes, Xiaolin had been nestled in the quilt all the time, and did not dare to make a sound at all.

Cheng Di didn't delay, walked straight to the next carriage, passed by the satisfied side, and said lightly: "My suggestion, it's better for you to save some effort." ”

Satisfied touched his head in confusion and watched Cheng Di leave.

It was placed in the third carriage further on. There was no one living here, so the lights were not turned on, and it was almost dark in the carriage, with only a faint moonlight. Outside the car window, there was a dark shadow of trees. Twisted trunks, swaying branches, one after the other, with no end.

The first carriage is placed with the equipment used by the archaeological team during the excavation, and the second carriage is full of some cultural relics, all of which were unearthed in the ruins of the ancient country of Pozi, Cheng Di walked directly to the third carriage, there is only one thing here, together with those cultural relics, a red coffin buried in the same place.

In the dimness, the coffin lay quietly on the ground, motionless, without any abnormality, but under the illumination of the moonlight, the whole body was glowing with a blood-red luster, which made people feel strange no matter how they looked at it. At that time, the archaeological team found it, and wanted to open it on the spot to check it, but I didn't expect that everyone had to work hard, and they couldn't pry the coffin board open the slightest. And it was this decision that made Cheng Di uneasy all the way.

Cheng Di walked to the side of the coffin, squatted down, stretched out his hand, put his finger on the gap in the coffin board, and slowly touched the whole circle. The coffin was still tightly sealed, with no sign of opening, as if any worry was unnecessary, it was nothing more than a coffin.

However, Cheng Di still couldn't relax at all. He turned to his side, pressed his ears against the side wall of the coffin, and held his breath.

"Whew-szz-" Then he heard what seemed to be a small sound coming from inside the coffin, sounding like the breathing of something.

Cheng Di frowned. The voice had been there since the beginning, but it was too faint for ordinary people to hear. Cheng Di reminded others that something was wrong with this coffin, but for some reason, he could only remind him.

Cheng Di closed his eyes, and the ominous premonition in his heart became worse. This kind of thing, he really saw it for the first time, just imagine, a coffin that has been closed for thousands of years, whether there is oxygen in it, it is not known, even if there is, what can survive in it for so long? Who is the owner of the breathing sound? Is it an animal? Is it human? Or is it just a corpse?

He knew very well that all the filthy things in this kind of ancient tomb were often accompanied by danger, but for such an unprecedented incident, he really had no solution to it, and he could only hope that the train would arrive at its destination as soon as possible, so as not to have too many dreams at night. When they arrived in Beijing, no matter what kind of demons and monsters it was, a large number of people surrounded it all day and night, and they couldn't make any trouble.

Fortunately, from the beginning of the Western Xinjiang to the present, there has been no change in the things here.

"I hope it's all the way." Cheng Di thought to himself.

"Whew-sizzle-" The breathing continued, Cheng Di stood up, shook his head, took one last look at the coffin, turned around and prepared to leave.

But at this moment, a new voice suddenly came out of the coffin, the voice was still very weak, but it was extremely harsh to Cheng Di's ears. It seemed to be a low roar, like the sound of some beast rising from its slumber, a sound that had never been heard before.